"Listen, you do not have to justify, explain, conceal or apologize for being a woman in comics," she wrote.

"You do not owe anyone, and I mean ANYONE, a moment of your valuable life trying to reconcile your art and dreams with someone's jaded, obsolete worldview on gender.

"I have been asked hundreds of times what it's like to be a woman in comics. You know what it's like? It's like being a woman in comics. The answer is both too large to possibly encapsulate and completely not their business at the same time."

Simone advised against acting out of character in order to seem like "one of the guys".

She also writes Red Sonja for Dynamite Entertainment and is known for her work on Birds of Prey, Wonder Woman and Secret Six.